Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-07-23
NEWS AND NOTES.

Over 800 people in Rome, Mic6., had
tne mumps at the same time.
Branch oleomargarine laboratories
Will soon be in operation in Chicago, in
charge of DR.. Starkel.
There was an increase of the net
gold in the Treasury from $15S. $685.
Oo5, July 1, 1886, to 1856, 875, 1869 July
1, 1887.
The total assessed value of the rail-
road property of Kansas is $41, $685.
9O4.85, as against $32,434, 936. 66 for
last year.
The tobacco area of Virginia is much
smaller than it used to be, but the
quality of tobacco raised is improving
every year.
Queen Victoria slept in camp Friday
night, at Aldershot for the first time
since the return of her victorious troops
from the Crimea.
Peggy Hester, the oldest woman in
New York, died last week. She was
Ito years old, and claimed to have seen
George Washington.
secretary Lamar's son, who now
holds a Government clerkship, is spok-
en- OF as mot bright young man, but
an excellent baseball player
Gen. Corse, the Boston Postmaster.
has removed only nineteen out of 756
employees in about seven months, and
all OF these for cause, he says.
Mrs. Daniels of Poughkeepsie claims
to have been naturalized in 1849. The
line IS radidly extending, and the cold
est Mason has gone into retirement.
The Rev. DR.. Abel Stevens, the Meth
odlst historian, has arrived in Califor-
MA on his way around the world, after
many years absence from this country.
Young Cyrus Field is said to have
Melted 100000 by the same slump in
Manhattan Elevated Railroad stock
which cost his father several millions.
Mrs. Pickett, widow of Gen. George
Il. Pickett. was married when she was
| 10 years of age. Her son was born be-
fore his mother had reached her 18th
year.
In the rifle contest at Frankfort it
was demonstrated that the old superior
lty OF Swiss marksmen is gone. the
bulk of the prize-winners being South
ern Germans.
Gen. Sherman has taken cottage at
Lake George for the season, whereupon
a correspondent reports that the place
has never before had sssuch promise of
gay times and pretty girls
The first auction ever held was in
Great Britain in 100, when Elishur, a
Governor of Fort George, in the East
Indies, publicly sold the goods he had
brought home to the highest bidder.
Mrs. Cleveland has received from
some admirer in Mexico coat-of-arms
OF the United States, worked on heavy
cardboard in feathers, most of them
colored, are from many different kinds
of birds.
There are now over 1000 Young
| Mems Christian Associations in this
country, with membership of 14O, 900,
expending for Christian work $785, 900.
The aggregate of property in build
1ngs' libraries, etc., is over 100000.
The New York Chinese Mission has
between 1000 and 5000 Celestials in
Its Sunday-schools. About sixty have
Joined the various churches. The first
Sunday-school for these people was
founded in New York eighteen years
ago.
DR.. Standiford of Louisville, who
wants to succeed Senator Beck, is said
to be the richest man in Kentucky. He
has just been married to his third wife,
a handsome young lady of Paducah,
whom the doctor first met two months
ago.
Abraham Lincoln's nurse has died
IN Illinois in her s4th year. 1t is to be
hoped that the mortality among her
during the next half century will not
be so frightful as that which has been
sweeping away George Washington's
body servant and has only just been
checked.
Judge Poland of Vermont, who died
a few days ago, discarded his brass
buttons no later than last winter, when
he paid his annual visit to Washington.
Everything goes so smoothly with me-"
said the old Judge, 'sthat I thought I
would take them off just for little ex-
element. -
Margaret Donnellson, better known
as Aunt Peggy, the Oldest inmate of
the Pittsburg Home for Aged Colored
Women, claims to be 100 years old,
and she certainly is pretty near that
age. She has lived in Pittsbure since
it was a fontier fort. She is active and
vigorous for her age.
The son of Joshua r. Giddings, the
old Ohio Abolitionist, lives at Jefferson.
the county seat of Ashtabula County.
He practices law and runs farm, but
he takes very little interest in politics
The son of Ben Wade lives in the same
town. He gives himself up to horses
and lets politics alone.
| 1t has been computed that the deatf,
rate of the world is about sixty-seven a
minute, 1890 day, and 35, 500 1855 a
year, while the birth rate is seventy q
minute, 100000 day, and 36.792, 900
a year. The total mileage of the rail-
roads in Kansas is 6 ,2O8.95, an increase
OF 1861 miles over last year.
| jeff Davis is blind in one eve, but few
persons know how he lost the orpan,